2012 Tour de France

The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition, starting in Liège on 30 June and finishing on the Champs-Élysées on 22 July over 21 stages including a prologue, 3,496.9 km in all, with the first two road stages in Belgium and one finish in Switzerland. Bradley Wiggins won and became the first British rider to win the Tour; his teammate Chris Froome was second and Vincenzo Nibali third. Fabian Cancellara wore yellow for the first week after winning the prologue; Wiggins, second in the prologue, took the lead on stage seven, the first mountain stage, which Froome won, and held it to Paris by winning the two longest time trials and conceding nothing to his rivals in the mountains.

Peter Sagan won the points classification with three stage wins, as did André Greipel and Mark Cavendish; Thomas Voeckler won two mountain stages and the mountains classification, and Tejay van Garderen, fifth overall, the young rider prize.